This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. At age 15, competition veteran Hannah Bettes traveled to the Prix de Lausanne, her sights set on getting into The Royal Ballet School. The teen left the competition with a scholarship—and the Audience Choice Award, to boot. That same year, Bettes won the […]
Patricia Zhou remembers hearing her coach’s encouraging voice in her head as she competed at the Beijing International Ballet Invitational in 2010. Now in the corps of Staatsballett Berlin, Zhou says the days Viktor Kabaniaev spent coaching her ranked among the most productive of her training. “He made me practice my entrelacé diagonal over and […]
BRITTANY STONE Boston Ballet Everything about Brittany Stone says “ballerina”: Her fluid port de bras, her lithe frame, her long legs. But until seven years ago she was a bona fide comp kid, performing jazz and tap and having, she insists, “no real ballet technique at all.” When Stone was 13, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis […]
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments On July 6, The Royal Ballet artistic director Kevin O’Hare announced a slew of promotions: Isabella Gasparini was promoted to first soloist; Mica Bradbury, Hannah Grennell, […]